Dispensing device for hairpins and the like



' July 25, 11939.

' s. KATZ DISPENSING DEVICE FOR HAIRPINS AND THE LIKE Filed Jan. 25,1958 Patented my 25, 1939.

s PATENT OFFICE DISPENSING DEVICE FOR HAIRPINS AND THE LIKE

Sam Katz, Brooklyn, N. Y. n Application January 25, 1938, Serial No.186,756

6 Claims.

The object of this invention is to provide a dispensing device, moreparticularly adapted for use in beauty parlors, and which may bemounted' upon a stand or the back of a chair occupied by a woman duringa hair dressing operation, as for example, finger waving, so that thehairdresser may conveniently and quickly be supplied with each "of therelatively large. number of hairpins required to hold the strands orcurls of hair in place during the drying and setting thereof.

In the operation of my device the pinsare successively presentedexterior of a holding casing therefor, by automatic action effected bythe withdrawal of hairpins for use by the operator.- The hairpins mayinitially be held together in stack formation similar to a stack of wirestaples used in a stapling machine of well known chairfacter,

The' invention will to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is aside elevation, partly broken away,

of an embodiment of the invention, an initial- I the embodi- Figure 5 isan enlarged view of the structure shown in Figure 4 with the ejectormechanism in 35 position for action upon a pin underlying an overlyingpin which is in position for finger removal. t

Figure 6 is a horizontal section on theline 56 Figure 5. 40 Figure 7 isa perspective view of the ejector element.

Referring to the drawing, I have shown at" I I a metallic casing, whichmay conveniently be made in' rectangular form, and having awidth, x .45thickness and length suflicient to enclose, and

Within the casing and movable upwardly and downwardly therein ispositioned a carrier 6 for u the ejectormechanism.

be described with'reference The carrier comprises a trough member havingvertical narrow side flanges, each-flange being formed' with a cam-slotat 63:. Received within each cam-slot 6a: are the horizontal roundedextensions ix of a set of arms 1, each set of I arms 1 being carried atone side of an ejector, slide 8. The ejector slide is normallymaintained in the position shown in Figures 1,5 and 6 by means of aspring 9 one end of the spring being carried by the slide' and the otherend being se- 10 cured to the .carrier 6.

At this rear end slide 8 is formed with an upwardly and inwardly bentbook 81. The opposite end of the slide carrying an upwardly bent lip 8mmCentrally thereof the slide carries arms [0, each u arm projectinglaterally. beyond an appropriate side wall of the casing l which is cutaway at l l for this purpose. Thus arms l0 may receive pressure from thefingers of an operatorfor bodily'moving the slide to' the position shownin Figure 4.

Between the bottom wall of the casing and the 7 carrier 6 is placed aspring l3 by means of which the carrier and its connected parts aregradually moved upward within the casing as the hairpins are ejectedthrough an' opening at Ir in theiront wall of the casing.

It will be understood that if desired, the carrier may be held againstbodily movement andthe spring, if a spring is required, may be placedabove the stack of hairpins so that as the bottom hairpins of the stackare ejected the stack will gradually move downward. The presentarrangement, however'enablesmore ready insertion of a fresh stack ofhairpins.

.In the operation of the device, a stack of hairpinsis inserted into thecasing, the cover being removed for that porpose, andthen being returnedto closing position. Such insertion'will cause depression of the carrieragainst theten sion of spring I3, the parts assuming the posi- 40position shown in Figures 1, 5 and 6, its point 46.

- being in line with the line of division between the lowermost hairpinhead'and the head of the hairpin immediately above it. The operator willthen, by means of arms I0, move the slide to the right thereby causingthe hook 81: to separate the lowermost hairpin from the stackand-projectit tothe position shown in Figure 1'-. v

At the end of the operation just described the slide is released andspring 9 will return it to initial positiom From this point theprojection 56' hairpin is adapted to actuate the ejector when.

of each one of the stack of hairpins will be automatically eflected bythe manual removal of the initially projected hairpin and the succeedingones. This follows because upwardly projected lip 8m: of the slide willhe immediatelyforward of the head of the projected hairpin. When the pinis moved outwardly by the fingers of the 013- erator, the slide willlikewise be moved,-to cause hook 8x to project the overlying pin 'lhisprojecting movement will continue until the front one of each of the twosets of arm extensions Ia: of the slide is carried down the inclinedsection of the appropriate cam-slot 6x. Lip 8m is thereby caused torelease the hairpin, which is 'then completely ejected by the manualmovement.

. The release of the slide in such manner enables spring 9 to return itto the position of Figures 1, and 6.

In Figure 2 Ihave shown a plan view of a chair,

two of thedevices being shown mounted face to face upon the back of thechair.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is as follows:

1 A dispensing device for hairpins, comprising a casing havingsupporting walls for a stack of hairpins contained therein, one of saidwalls beend of the latter, said lip adapted to be engaged by the hairpinso projected upon a return movement of the ejector, whereby the hairpinis adapted to actuate the ejector when the hairpin is grasped byan'operator' and moved outwardlyof the casing.

2. A dispensing device for hairpins, comprising a casing havingsupporting walls for a stack vof hairpins contained therein and having adispensing opening in one of said walls, a slide ejector within thecasing and movable relatively to the stack, a fingerpiece connected tothe ejector and projected exteriorly of the casing whereby the ejectormay be moved in a direction away from the casing, said ejector beingformed with a hook at one end to engage a hairpin at the end of thestack, the ejector being formed with a lip at its opposite end, said lipbeing adapted -to be engaged by a hairpin upon amovement of the ejectorinwardly of the -casing, whereby the the hairpin is grasped by anoperator and moved outwardly of the casing.

3. A dispensing device for hairpins, comprising a casing havingsupporting walls for a stack of hairpinscontalned therein, a dispensingopening being formed in one of said walls, a carrier within the'casingand formed with a cam slot, a slide ejector having an element projectedwithin said cam slot, said ejector being formed at one end with a hookadapted to engage a hairpin at one end of the stack, the ejectorcarrying a lip at its opposite end, a spring carried by the casing andengaging the ejector, the ejector having an extension projectingexteriorly of the casing enabling bodily movement of the ejector tocause its hook to engage and project said hairpin through the dispensingopening, the spring being adapted to return the ejectorto inactiveposition, the ejector in its return movement bringing said lip intoengagement with the projected hairpin,

whereby the hairpin in an additional movement imparted to it'in adirection away from the casing will actuate the ejector, o,

4. A device constructed in accordance with claim 3, in which the camslot is so formed as to casing being formed with a dispensing opening.

an ejector within the'cas'ing and having a fingerpiece projected beyondthe casing. said ejector comprising a member formed at each end with ananguiarly bent extension, each extension being ejector, and a cam deviceadapted to act upon said cam engaging element to effect a tiltingmovement of the ejector when the latter is given bodily movementrelatively to the cam device,

whereby'said tilting movement carries the ejector out of engagement withthe hairpin.

6. A dispensing-device for hairpins, comprising a casing havingsupporting walls {or a stack of hairpins contained therein, a carrierwithin the casing, a spring engaging the casing and the carrier andadapted to maintain the latter in engagement with said stack, a cam onthe carrier, an ejector movable relatively to the carrier and having acam engaging element adapted' to engage said cam, the ejector beingformed at each end with an extension adapted to engage the rounded endof a U-shaped hairpin, a, spring carried by the casing and adapted tohold the ejector in inactive position, and means operable from apointexterior the casing for bodily moving the ejector against thetension of said spring, the casing being formed with a dispensingopening for the hairpins, and the cam being adapted to move the ejectorout of engagement with a hairpin after an active movement of theejection in a direction outwardly of the casing.

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adapted to abut the rounded end of a L l-shaped hairpin, a cam engagingelement carried by the

